{"title":"An Event-Driven Community in Washington, DC","authors":"J. Preece","doi":"10.4018/978-1-60566-152-0.CH006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-152-0.CH006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":350305,"journal":{"name":"Handbook of Research on Urban Informatics","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125605300","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Navigation Becomes Travel Scouting","authors":"T. Thielmann","doi":"10.4018/978-1-60566-152-0.CH016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-152-0.CH016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":350305,"journal":{"name":"Handbook of Research on Urban Informatics","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123731697","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Beyond Safety Concerns","authors":"Víctor M. González, K. Kraemer, Luís A. Castro","doi":"10.4018/978-1-60566-152-0.CH009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-152-0.CH009","url":null,"abstract":"The practical use of information technology devices in domestic and residential contexts often results in radical changes from their envisioned raison d’etre. This study focuses on the context of household safety and security, and presents results from the analysis of the usage of video cameras in the public areas of an urban neighbourhood in Tecamac, Mexico. Moving beyond the original envisioned purpose of safety, residents of the community engaged in a process of technology appropriation, finding novel applications for the security cameras. These uses included supporting coordination among family members, providing enhanced communication with distant friends and family, looking after minors while playing outside, and showing the household to friends and colleagues. Our results illustrate that success in information technologies is a dynamic phenomenon and that technology appropriation has to be understood as a phenomenon that occurs at the level of the application of the device, rather than at the level of the device itself.","PeriodicalId":350305,"journal":{"name":"Handbook of Research on Urban Informatics","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122257948","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Extreme Informatics","authors":"Mark Shepard","doi":"10.4018/978-1-60566-152-0.CH029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-152-0.CH029","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":350305,"journal":{"name":"Handbook of Research on Urban Informatics","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114341089","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"To Connect and Flow in Seoul","authors":"J. Choi, A. Greenfield","doi":"10.4018/978-1-60566-152-0.CH002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-152-0.CH002","url":null,"abstract":"Once a city shaped by the boundary conditions of heavy industrialisation and cheap labour, within a few years Seoul has transformed itself to one of the most connected and creative metropolises in the world, under the influence of a new set of postindustrial prerogatives: consumer choice, instantaneous access to information, and new demands for leisure, luxury, and ecological wholeness. The Korean capital stands out for its spatiotemporally compressed infrastructural development, particularly in the domain of urban informatics. This chapter explores some implications of this compression in relation to Seoulites’ strong desire for perpetual connection, a desire that is realised and reproduced through ubiquitous technologies connecting individuals both with one another and with the urban environment itself. \u0000 \u0000We use the heavily managed urban creek Cheonggyecheon as a metaphor for the technosocial milieu of contemporary Seoul, paying particular attention to what its development might signify for Seoulites both as a constituent node of the city and as an outcropping of networked information technology. We first describe some of the historic, social and economic contexts in which the Cheonggyecheon project is embedded, then proceed to discuss the most pertinent facets of Korean-style everyday informatics engaged by it: ubiquity; control and overspill; government-industry collaboration; lifestyle choice; and condensed development timelines.","PeriodicalId":350305,"journal":{"name":"Handbook of Research on Urban Informatics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129212064","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Home is Where the Hub Is? Wireless Infrastructures and the Nature of Domestic Culture in Australia","authors":"K. Jungnickel, Genevieve Bell","doi":"10.4018/978-1-60566-152-0.CH021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-152-0.CH021","url":null,"abstract":"The commercial rhetoric that surrounds wireless infrastructure proposes to radically alter our everyday lives. A recent Telstra advertising campaign featuring images of a kombi van driving along an open road to the classic tune I’ve been everywhere suggests wireless infrastructure offers the ‘freedom’ of ‘true mobility’ (Telstra 2006). Other providers make claims of ‘convenience’, ‘no worries flexibility’ and ‘always on’ connectivity to signal the ease and ubiquity of the service (See Optus 2006; Unwired 2006) . On the most basic level WiFi and WiMAX technologies enable the transfer of high-speed data wirelessly and operate via electromagnetic signals broadcast ABsTRAcT","PeriodicalId":350305,"journal":{"name":"Handbook of Research on Urban Informatics","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116176154","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Visual Approach to Locative Urban Information","authors":"Viktor Bedö","doi":"10.4018/978-1-60566-152-0.CH015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-152-0.CH015","url":null,"abstract":"This paper contributes to the ongoing effort to understand the nature of locative information. Messages such as “Get out at the next stop!” or “Text me when you get there!” (Hemment, 2007), can be interpreted only in the context of a concrete place at a concrete moment in time. In contrast, for example, an abstract scientific formula such as “e=mc2”, is put into context by other formulae and by scientific method which tell you how to use these formulae. These examples illustrate these two opposite poles; messages for which location is needed as context and messages that can be understood with no reference to location. Between these poles there is a range of situation/locationsensitivity of messages, referred to as the level of locativity. Unfortunately, however, we do not yet possess sound instruments for measuring the level of location-sensitivity, therefore we do not know where to place specific types of information or messages in this range. In other words, it ABsTRAcT","PeriodicalId":350305,"journal":{"name":"Handbook of Research on Urban Informatics","volume":"89 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132207404","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Barbara Crow, Michael Longford, K. Sawchuk, Andrea Zeffiro
{"title":"Voices from Beyond","authors":"Barbara Crow, Michael Longford, K. Sawchuk, Andrea Zeffiro","doi":"10.4018/978-1-60566-152-0.CH011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-152-0.CH011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":350305,"journal":{"name":"Handbook of Research on Urban Informatics","volume":"81 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115721609","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Figmentum Project","authors":"Colleen Morgan","doi":"10.4018/978-1-60566-152-0.CH010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-152-0.CH010","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores how we may design located information and communication technologies (ICTs) to foster community sentiment. It focuses explicitly on possibilities for ICTs to create new modalities of place through exploring key factors such as shared experiences, shared knowledge and shared authorship. To contextualise this discussion in a real world setting, this paper presents FIGMENTUM, a situated generative art application that was developed for and installed in a new urban development. FIGMENTUM is a non-authoritative, non-service based application that aims to trigger emotional and representational place-based communities. Out of this practice-led research comes a theory and a process for designing creative place-based ICT’s to animate our urban communities.","PeriodicalId":350305,"journal":{"name":"Handbook of Research on Urban Informatics","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121389036","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fostering Communities in Urban Multi-Cultural Neighbourhoods","authors":"M. Veith","doi":"10.4018/978-1-60566-152-0.CH008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-152-0.CH008","url":null,"abstract":"Societies face serious challenges when trying to integrate migrant communities. One-sided solutions do not pay tribute to the complexity of this subject and a single academic discipline provides no proper methodological approaches to the field. An inter-cultural computer club in an urban multi-cultural neighbourhood illustrates these phenomena: appropriate argumentations and models can only be found in a theoretical net of scientific disciplines. Categories in a complex socio-cultural field have to be uncovered. These categories can be explained with the help of the theoretical net. We develop a three-dimensional model combining empirical tools with the research strategy of participatory action research and grounded theory as a guide to theorizing the field. This model is introduced here as a means of socio-technical design and development. Fostering Communities in Urban Multi-Cultural Neighbourhoods","PeriodicalId":350305,"journal":{"name":"Handbook of Research on Urban Informatics","volume":"152 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128680488","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}